Have you ever been frustrated by a boss who wouldn’t lead? You’re not alone with that.

I will show how you can not let a bad boss keep you from being successful. It will be off the book, “How to lead when your boss can’t or won’t,” by John C. Maxwell. John Maxwell has been called the #1 leader in business by the AMA and the world’s most influential leadership expert. He unveils the keys to successfully navigating the challenges of working for an ineffective leader. He teaches how to lead yourself so that you’re positioned to be successful. He also shows how to take the high road, avoid landmines that could make your situation worse, work with your boss to get things done. You don’t need to be the boss or have a great boss to be successful.

I have had some horrible bosses and I also had some good bosses. Have you ever had a horrible boss? What is a horrible boss?

You all heard of the movie, Horrible Bosses, in which workers would like nothing better than to grind their oppressive employers into dirt. Quitting their jobs is not an option.

Have you ever felt like quitting your job because of a horrible boss?

When there is a high turnover rate at a place of employment, take a look at the reason why. Some bosses don’t seem to understand that they may be a reason for the high turnover rate. It’s not always the pay. Sometimes, some bosses can be jerks.

Are you working somewhere in the middle of an organization with a boss who can’t or won’t lead? Do you have a boss who would sit on his lazy ass and barked orders at you and treat you like the scum of the earth? Can you talk to your boss or are they hard to talk too?

Everything rises and falls on leadership. If you don’t believe it, just put together a group of people without a leader and watch them. They will drift. When there is no good leader directing a team, running a department, leading an organization, or heading a family, then the following results are inevitable. You are walking on eggshells around horrible bosses. Decisions are delayed. Agendas are multiplied. Conflicts are extended.

Morale becomes low. When leaders are not present or not leading, people often lose hope and morale plummets. That’s as bad as getting low pay for the job you do. You hate getting up to go to work.

Production is reduced. Strong leaders are creative in finding ways to help others become productive. Sometimes it means laying out a challenge. Sometimes it means giving people training. Sometimes it means encouraging others or putting up incentives.

Success is difficult. All organizations need leaders at every level in order to be successful.

Has your leader neglected to communicate the vision? Is your leader proposing a vision that doesn’t align or contribute to the vision of the organization?

That’s one of the worst things that happens when bosses don’t lead properly.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” A similar idea can be expressed about leaders.

When I worked at the Fargo Country Club, it was like a dysfunctional family. The executive chef would right with the employee. When we’re not working, we would hang out having fun. It was hard to quit because you enjoyed the people and the boss. At the same time, the pay and benefits were terrible, and you had to think about moving forward to better yourself.

Insecure leaders think everything is about themselves, resulting in them being self-centered. When leaders are insecure,they often project that insecurity down to the people below them.

Incompetent leaders are ineffective and they often stay that way. They don’t see themselves as being the problems for the high turnover rate.

A Self-centered leaders attempt to advance at the expense of everyone around them.

When people follow a chameleon leader, they never know how he will react. Thus, the employees will be walking on eggshells at work. They will call in often sick to work just because they don’t feel like going it because they fear the idea of working with a jerk.

Have you ever worked for someone who wants to be in the middle of everything you do? They would create a long list of chores to have you do and complete before you leave for the day. They will also watch over you like a hawk. They are constantly watching over your shoulders.

They create tension and confusion in the workplace.

Have you ever noticed the level of tension you experience on the job? If you worked under a horrible boss, the tension is rather high.

Everyone needs to be appreciate and if there is a lack of appreciation; it makes a rather poor working environment.

Have you ever worked with people who didn’t lead themselves well?

Have you ever heard someone at work say that you have an attitude? They just doesn’t realize that they are the reasons for the attitudes. If you’re treated like slaves and not respected, you become very upset. You would want to say, like the movie, “The Help,” “eat my shit!” Or as Flo from the series, “Alice,” “Kiss my grit!”

I had one manager at Kmart, that was a horrible boss. It was almost like he wasn’t very happy at his job. Once he retired and came in, he seems to be happier. I noticed it and commented on that. It goes to show that some people may have been pushed in doing something they really are not into.

Can you talk with your boss or do you find it difficult? Where I worked now, I had a manager who would always have his office door shut so that he wouldn’t be disturbed. He even had his office door locked when he’s not there. There was a joke that states, “please do not disturb sleeping beauty.” You find it very difficult to talk to him, you walked on eggshells when he was there, when he’s not in, the employees are much happier and productive. He didn’t understand that he was the reason for a high turnover.

Then there was one of the owner of Quality Bakery, who treated my mother horrible. My mother made excuses. She would say things like, “they paid for my insurance,or that he was a friend.” He took advantage of my mother. His name was Peter Fendt and he should be ashamed of himself for how he treated my mother. If I ever ran into him, I would give him a piece of my mind. Whenever he was mad at his wife or father, he would take it out on the employees.

I also have good bosses. Bosses who would worked alongside you, bosses that you can talked with. I really enjoy working at the Fargo Dome; because the atmosphere is good to work in. When the time come for me to retire,I would probably continue working there part time just to keep myself busy.

Back where I’m working now, where we had a horrible manager,well that manager is finally gone. We have a new manager. Before the bad manager left, he thought that the new manager would be worse than him, because he couldn’t see himself at fault. Anyway, the atmosphere is better now. We are not walking on eggshells, you can talked to the manager and the supervisor. With the old manager, if you were sick, he would have you still come into work anyway. It was almost like he was afraid if you didn’t showed up, he would actually had to do some real work. With our new manager,if we’re sick, they would rather have us stay home instead of coming to work sick.

When you hear of Elon Musk, what is your reaction toward him? What is your opinion about him? How do you feel about him?

When I first heard of Elon Musk, I didn’t much care for him. I had the same view of him as I had of Donald Trump. But like Donald Trump, Elon Musk had a way to grow on a person.

In this blog, I will give you a biography about Elon Musk and show how my view toward him had changed.

Elon Musk is 53 years old. He’s a businessman known for his key roles in the space company Space X and the automotive company Tesla. He also just last year bought Twitter and renamed it X. He was born in Pretoria, South Africa to Errol and Maye Musk. He was born on June 28, 1971. His nationality is American,Canadian, and South African. His net worth is $424.9 billion US dollars. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Science in 1997.

Elon Musk is a member of the wealthy South African Musk family. At 18, he immigrated to Canada, acquiring its citizenship through his mother. In 1995, he moved to California. He acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion.

In 2004, Musk was an early investor in electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors,providing most of the initial financing and assuming the position of the company’s chairman. He helped create SolarCity, a solar energy company that was acquired by Tesla in 2016 and became Tesla Energy. In 2013, he proposed a hyperloop high speed vactrain transportation system. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit artificial Intelligence research company. In 2022, he acquired Twitter for $44 billion, merged the company into his newly created X Corp and rebranded the service as X the following year.

As you can see, Elon Musk is a busy wealthy man; and some say that he is too smart for his own good, a genius. He can come across as being arrogant to the common man. Because of his arrogance.

Elon Musk’s action and expressed views have made him a polarizing figure. He has been criticized for making unscientific and misleading statements, including Covid-19 misinformation, affirming antisemitic and transphobic comments, and promoting conspiracy theories. His ownership of Twitter has been controversial because of large employees layoffs, an increase in posts containing hate speech, misinformation and disinformation on the service,and changes to service features,including verification. The reason for him buying Twitter and changing it to X,is because he is believer in free speech. He felt that Twitter was censoring free speech from anyone on the right.

Now I wasn’t a big fan of Elon Musk at first. But once he went about and purchased Twitter under the guise of free speech, I soon started liking him. I’m a supporter of free speech myself.

Freedom of Speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. It’s one of our Constitution’s Rights.

Yet those on the Left like the Democrats and fake mainstream news media were infringing on our freedom of speech because they didn’t like what was being said. Even such Social Media as the old Twitter and Facebook were censoring anyone who they felt was posting misinformation, or something they disagree with such as CoVid information and Hunter Biden’s briefcase. In other words, if you don’t agree with them, you were guilty of misinformation and were quickly cancelled from Facebook. Much like they were doing in the book, “1984.” If they were doing that,just think they could very easily do that to me because they do not like what I post in my blog. Luckily, my blog isn’t real big yet;otherwise, I could also faced being cancelled by those on the Left.

Elon Musk was once a Democrat but got smart and left the party and endorsed Donald Trump for President in this past election. He was one of the Democrats who had gotten smart and left the party in support of Donald Trump. He was joined by Bobby Kennedy Jr and Tulsi Gabbert as well.

Elon Musk,along with Vivek Ramaswamy will co-lead his planned Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), advisory board; which is tasked with removing regulations in order to reduce expenditures and increase government efficiency. I believe that our forefathers would be all for this. I also believe that both President Reagan and President John F. Kennedy would also be for it as well. Yet there are those on the Left and the Rhino Republicans who are against this. DOGE will eliminate wasteful spending by our corrupt government. It could even cut taxes as well. I’m looking forward to Trump’s second term as President and to see what DOGE can do to cut wasteful spending in our government.

The moment Elon Musk came out in support of free speech and bought Twitter, I became a supporter of him. Whereas, before I felt that he had a big ego about himself being so damn rich and smarter than everyone else.

I don’t know what to think about AI. But if AI wants my day job, they can have it. There’s still some jobs out there that AI probably won’t be able to take quite yet though. James Cameron made a prediction about AI with his movie,”The Terminator.” I won’t go into too much with AI in this blog until I get more information.

On Elon Musk comments on transphobic, my view had changed because of getting to know someone who is a transgender and gay. As long as they are not hurting anyone, can’t we just let them be themselves. Can’t we just learn to accept them as they are? Believe me, I’m doing that now that I know the whole story.

I’m not big on electric cars being push onto everyday American citizens. For one, not everyone can afford them. They cannot work in the winter, especially when the temperature gets way below zero wind chill. I already did a blog on electric cars.

I do believe in solar energy and know people who built solar houses. I don’t know if I would want one though. Maybe I need more information on solar energy. If it’s anything like windmill, you can forget of me being on board. As I wrote in previous blog on windmill, windmill does more harms to the environment. They kill and/or harm wildlife around them. They are an eyesore as well.

This is my view on Elon Musk. I agree with some of what he stands for and disagree with some. What do you agree with? I would like to hear from you in the comment below. I promise you that I will not censor you. You are entitle to your opinions just as I am. It’s our god-given freedom of speech.

There’s a battle for our minds and the minds of our children and young people. This blog will be based off the book, “Battle for the American Mind” by Pete Hegseth. In this book, he talks about uprooting century of miseducation of our youths. The American people came to this realization while during the Pandemic when schools were shut down and classes was done online. For once, parents were able to actually see what was being taught to their kids in school. Our education system was able to pull a fast one over the parents up to then. Now that they know what is being taught in our schools, they are coming up against the school boards in protest. By taking on the school boards, parents are labeled “Domestic Terrorist by the school boards, President Joe Biden, the Democrats and our Leftist news media.

Behind a smoke screen of preparing students for the new industrial economy, early Progressives had political control in mind. America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom. They assigned the classics, inspired love of God and country, and raised future citizens who changed the world forever.

Today, after 16,000 hours of K-12 indoctrination, our kids come out of government schools hating America. They roll their eyes at religion and disdain our history. We spend more money on education than ever, but kids can barely read and write-let alone reason with discernment. Kids are bored and aimless, flailing for purpose in a system that says racial and gender identity are everything.

Unless we undo that foundational damage, nothing we do in public schools will change our course toward tyranny and thought control. It’s very similar to the book, “1984,” where they talked about the thought police will have you arrested if you dare think against them and the government. It’s also similar to what Adolf Hitler was doing during his reign of terror during World War 2. The Nazi was indoctrinating young boys for their own political gain, turning them against their parents.

The most evident revelation from this development was the theory our kids have been taught about race in American classroom. Seemingly out of nowhere-and accelerated after the Black Lives Matters riots in the summer of 2020-concepts like white privilege and systemic racism and even a new founding date for America, the year 1619, were splashed across computer screens all over America. Critical Race Theory had fully arrived, often masked as “Diversity,Equity, and Inclusion,” along with a full attempt to redefine gender, infuse climate fatalism, and turn our children into activists.

The problem is often not even individual schools or school boards; in fact, many parents, teachers, and administrators seem numb. At least not until the schools were shut down because of Covid, when parents were able to finally get a taste what was being taught in our schools.

The blame for the problems in America, and rightfully so, was on Leftism…fed by worshipping concepts like multiculturalism, socialism, genderism,secularism, and other dangerous “ism”.

The condemnation of dissent may look different-North Korea prefers concentration camps. America prefers cancellation, marginalization, and labeling-but the reality is the same. America’s elites are hell bent on changing the landscape in America. In America today, private thoughts are not allowed, just like in the book, “1984.”

When I was in school, we would stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance out of respect for America. Now our kids don’t do that in our public schools.

People of faith are tough, hardworking and fiercely protective of their God given freedoms. Yet the system is stacked against them.

America’s instruments of media,Hollywood, corporate boardrooms, and government bureaucracies, and even the new “woke” military have taken a turn toward an unrecognizable America, full of censorship.

They rather dumb it down; so not to offend anyone.

Parents today need to continue to stay informed, involved and active in asking questions, researching on their own and fighting for their kids rights. It’s time to go back teaching the basics: history, math, reading, science. Kids today are not taught cursive writing in schools anymore.

It’s not enough to yell at the school board when they erase names of holidays, change the gender designation on bathrooms, force our young, healthy kids to wear masks and advance critical race Theory. They are even forcing the use of pronouns for gender recognition. They are not letting kids be themselves; thus making some confused. Kids need to be kids without being push into something they may not be. At the same time they need to be themselves without anyone harassing them because they are different.

Marxist teachers colleges pump out ideological teachers, left-wing teachers unions reign supreme, PTAs are neutered, school boards scared fully “Woke.”

How did the Left get in such a dominant position? Right underneath our noses, Progressives in America quietly labored to gain control over an even more powerful set of commanding heights.

People should be asking themselves, what elementary,middle, and high school is teaching Critical Race Theory and why they are spinning false narratives?

It’s not about racism or equality, or even gender. It’s about deconstructing anything and everything that reflects not just the founding principles of America, but the foundations of our families and our faith. It’s about control of thought and behavior. At the same time, we must not condemn someone because we do not approve of their lifestyle choices and the way they dress. Both sides must learn to accept it and get to know the individual instead.

Our education had stolen the minds of our kids, and they knew exactly what they needed to remove in order to make it happen.

As our culture sinks deeper into an identity crisis, suicide rates climb, and families and churches shrink, our very survival requires a better way.

Battle for the American Mind is more than a book; it’s a field guide for remaking schools in the United States. We’ve ceded our kids’minds to the Left for far too long. Pete Hegseth would be good to steer our military as the Department of Defense in the right direction.

Even though, I have read this book, I recently came to different realization on gender confusion. Both sides have to come to an understanding of the individual and not try to force people to be someone they are not. We have to learn to accept people as they are;even if we may not approve of their lifestyle. Don’t try to change someone into someone they are not. It would just cause further damage in their psyche. It doesn’t matter what side of the fence you are on.

Let us love and accept one another without judgement. We are all God’s children and God does not make junk.

It’s that time of year again!! There’s snow on the ground and Christmas lights are up and for all to see. Christmas Day is 2 days away on the 25th of this month. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. Are you ready for Christmas?

If you’re a last minute shopper, you have no one to blame but yourself for procrastinating. You had since November 1st to get your Christmas shopping done, gifts bought and wrapped.

Growing up, my step-dad would wait until the day before Christmas Eve to get the Christmas tree. We then would decorate the tree with all the pretty Christmas lights and decorations; not just on the tree either.

Eventually, my mother grew tired of fighting with him to go and get the tree; so she ended up buying an artificial tree.

This time of year the stores and restaurants are extremely busy with shoppers. People just goes nuts for Christmas. They even would maxed out their credit cards in shopping for the perfect gift for someone.

The stores and homes are beautifully decorated all out for Christmas. It’s one of the beautiful sites to see this time of year at night while taking a drive to look at all the pretty Christmas decorations and lights.

It could be romantic if a guy take his girlfriend or wife out for a sleigh ride. Make you sure you have a cup of hot chocolate to sip on and warm up your hands as well. Some men may use this time to propose to their girlfriend; because it’s very romantic, sitting in the sleigh with your sweetie looking at Christmas lights as she is snuggling up close to you to keep warm.

As the song, “Let it Snow,”goes Oh the weather outside is frightful but the fire is so delightful and since we’ve no place to go let it Snow, let it snow, let is snow.

There are carolers on practically every street corners singing Christmas songs wishing everyone Merry Christmas.

You even see the bell ringer from Salvation Army ringing the bells in front of the stores. Some stores will let them be inside where it’s warm; but most stores have them standing outside in the cold.Some of them are dressed as Santa Clause.

Speaking of Santa, he is dressed in red suit and have a white beard. Here comes Santa Clause, right down Santa Clause lane.

Santa Clause is coming to town. He got a list and checking twice to see who has been naughty or nice. So be nice for goodness sake.

My mother’s favorite Christmas song was “I saw Mommy kissing Santa Clause.” She would always sing that song. Her sister, Aunt Rosella love the song, “Grandma got run over by a reindeer”

This time of year is also a time that we would gained a lot of weights because of all the good Christmas cookies. There’s lots of baking going on this time of year. I sure do like those Christmas cookies, baby. They are a special treat, the more she bakes, the more I eat.

Not only do people decorate their homes for Christmas, there are some who send outs Christmas cards. Some cards will have a long letter stating how their their year went. But with e-mails prominent, there are less cards going out.

Families will get together this time of year as well. Probably not much this year when a person would watch YouTube and/or Twitter seeing some of the crazy people upset since the election.

My mother was big on get-together for Christmas. When she cooked, there was always a feast. if you go hungry, it’s your own damn fault. My folks are gone now, but the memories still linger in our minds. This can be a depressing time because of loves being no longer with us.

That’s probably the only good things about being in the cities during Christmas. As you are out and about this Christmas looking at all the pretty decorations,take time to reflect on the marvel and beauty of the seasons. Put a little joy and Christmas spirit in your heart. Then you’ll see how people just go nuts for Christmas.

Merry Christmas from the family one for all, I wish you a Merry Christmas!!

Have you ever wondered why some of these major cities have a high crime rates and criminals are running rampant and free instead of being lock up? Do ever wonder who is funding these Liberals District Attorney and judges who is allowing this to happened?

There is a billionaire by the name of George Soros who is funding these Liberals District Attorney. Who is he, you may asked?

George Soros is 94 years old and his net worth is $7.2 billion. He is a Hungarian-American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and Liberal political activist. He is the founder and chair of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Foundations.

When you look at his picture, I don’t know about you but to me he looks like a sick perverted disgusting individual. His cause is to help those who cannot afford a good attorney get justice in a corrupt legal system. Now that is a good thing; being that the rich are able to get away with crimes; while the poor doesn’t get proper representation in the court of law. Yet at the same time, there are career criminals out there taking advantage of the help to get away from their crimes.

The major cities are bombarded with career criminals who taking advantage of the system to avoid serving any prison time. They know that they cannot afford a good attorney, and so they get appointed court-appointed attorney. Now court-appointed doesn’t really do their job to defend their clients;since they get paid anyway. Those who are rich can afford a good attorney to get away with crimes. I do agree that they need to clean up our justice system; but at the same time, there are people who knows how to play you and the system.

Who are these District Attorney and judges on George Soros Liberal army?

Under these candidates, they quickly engage in prosecutorial nullification by refusing to prosecute entire categories of crimes. Crime has exploded under Krasner’s pro-criminal policies, murders are up 63% and shootings are up 78%. These rogue prosecutor movement is dangerous, well-funded, and systematically destroying America’s communities.

Rachael Rollins, backed by Soros resigns in disgrace. Then there are Matt Dugan, George Gascon, Chesa Boudin, Kim Foxx, Kim Gardner, and Marilyn Mosby. We can’t forget Alvin Bragg either.

Kamala Harris is the original Soros prosecutor. She was soft on crime.

The Soros prosecutor seeks only to get into power with Mr. Soros’ money, then serves by refusing to prosecute criminals, selectively enforcing laws for political purposes, insisting that criminals be immediately released from custody regardless of public safety concerns, and seeking to cut funding to police departments.

Kamala Harris forged the blueprint to undermine America’s justice system. She was soft on crime, refuse to fight for the victims of violent crime, and fought for cashless bail.

Most recently Daniel Penny was found innocent in New York City over the choking incident. To some he is a hero but to those on the Left he was seen as a murderer. Now I’m glad that he was found innocent but I was surprised it happened in New York City, because of their Liberal policies and soft on crimes especially involving the actual criminals.

These George Soros’ army of Liberals District Attorney is the reason why crimes are on the rise in a lot of these major cities. It’s no wonder many good honest citizens want to leave the city for the country and small town. Ever since the George Floyd’s case, there have been a “defend the police movement by these Liberals paid by George Soros.

Don’t get me wrong, our justice system needs an overhaul but the way that George Soros is going about is all wrong. They are being taken advantage of by these career criminals who knows how to play the system; much like the welfare system.

I mentioned New York City as being very Liberal and soft on crimes; but so is California. I mentioned before how O.J.Simpson got away with murder because he had money to afford good attorney to use his race to his advantage. If he was a poor black man, He would had only court-appointed attorney, and race would not been made an issue.

Just like with Michael Jackson and his child molestation charges, if he wasn’t rich and famous, he would have been found guilty.

It’s an example of ruining a good thing by those who knows how to take advantage of the system.

My question is: is George Soros a sick criminals or someone who wants to help those who needs help? Is our justice system corrupted? I say it is! The big question is: how do we fixed the problems?

Were you coddled as a child? Were you disciplined as a child?

For those who was coddled as a child, I was disciplined as a child. My mother would say when a child misbehave swat them on the ass. It won’t hurt because there is a lot of cushion there. When I was very little, I was a biter. My mother would say to anyone, if I bite them, bite him back. There was a time when my mother came home tired from work and was laying down on the bed; when I crawled up onto the bed and bit her in the ass for attention, since I missed her. As she was spanking me for biting her, my grandmother intervened on my behalf.

This blog isn’t about being disciplined; but rather on “The Coddling of the American Mind.” By disciplining your children you are raising them up to be good people. Yet, there are those who are being coddled instead of disciplined. In this blog, you’ll see how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure.

Our behavior in society is not immune to the power of rational scientific analysis. Through that lens, prepare yourself for a candid look at the softening of America, and what we can do about it.

How can we as a nation do a better job of preparing young men and women of all backgrounds to be seeker of truth and sustainers of democracy? In other words, raise them up with strong family value and they will grow up to be decent human being. They will remembered the teaching of their youth. They may think that you are a bad parents and vow not to do what was done to them; but as they get older they will be glad that their parents loved them enough to disciplined them when they misbehave.

Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid of to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression,and suicide are rising on campuses as well as nationally. How did this happen? People used to respect the college deans and those with different opinions. Now they are easily offended. I said before, I had a college professor, Dr. Thomas Matchie, who was a Democrat and I was young college Republican. We had respect for each other and he eventually became my advisor. You don’t see much of that anymore.

Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child. Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once you mastered, no one can help you as much, not even your father or your mother. The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.

Many university students are learning to think in distorted ways, and this increases their likelihood of becoming fragile, anxious,and easily hurt.

Coddling means being overprotective. We have always been ambivalent about the word “coddling.” We didn’t like the implication that children today are pampered, spoiled, and lazy, because that is not accurate. Young people today-at a minimum, those who are competing for places at selective colleges-are under enormous pressure to perform academically and to build up a long list of extracurricular accomplishments. Meanwhile, all teens face new forms of harassment, insult, and social competition from social media.

As I get older and the fear of ending up in nursing home, I become fearful just thinking that these younger generations will be taking care of us. I would need a cane just to beat them until they actually took better care of us;rather than be on their smartphone and social media. I’m afraid that I see more elderly abuse and neglect by the younger generations, due to their lack of respect and proper upbringing and being coddled.

The untruth of fragility: what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker. When in fact, it’s does just the opposite, what doesn’t kill you make you stronger.

Thanks to hygiene, antibiotics and too little outdoor play, children don’t get exposed to microbes as they once did. This may lead them to develop immune systems that overreact to substances that aren’t actually threatening-causing allergies. In the same way, by shielding children from every possible risk, we may lead them to react with exaggerated fear to situations that aren’t risky at all and isolate them from the adult skills that they will one day have to master . In other words children are becoming unhealthy and overweight.

When I was a child,we played outside with other kids. We would ride our bikes around the neighborhood. Now days, kids are indoors on social media and playing on the computers. They are not as active as we once were. There immune system is weakening due to that fact, and Bobby Kennedy Jr, want to change that as he will be in charge of the Department of Health. The big Pharma and medical professions aren’t very excited about that. They rather feed us poisons rather than let mother nature strengthen our immune system like it did when I was younger.

Human beings need physical and mental challenges or we will deteriorate. Muscles need motion, heart and lung function could decline and blood clots to form. Just as spending a month in bed…lead to muscle atrophy, complex systems are weaken, even killed.

A culture that allows the concept of safety to creep so far that it equates emotional discomfort with physical danger is a culture that encourages people to systematically protect one another from every experiences embedded in our daily lives.

Don’t get wrong: safety is good; but keeping other safe from harm is virtuous and virtues can become vices when carried to extremes. By doing that, children are not able to experience life to live to the fullness. They have more allergy and fear than my generation had growing up. Children are becoming more fragile.

Young people today are to trust their feelings rather than their instincts. They are more easily offended and take offense of every little things.They are not taught to take responsibility for their action. Rather,the social workers would tell them that it’s their parents fault not theirs.

A portion of what is derided as political correctness is just an effort to promote polite and respectful interactions by discouraging the use of terms that are reasonably taken to be demeaning.

Education should not be intended to make people comfortable;it is meant to make them think. That had all change in today’s society. Instead the education system is indoctrinating our kids and tell them the values their parents are teaching them is all wrong. When parents stand up to the school board they called “Domestic Terrorist by people like Joe Biden.

I dedicated this blog to my parents, who did their best to prepare me for the road of life. Sure when I was disciplined for misbehaving I didn’t like it at that time; but it helped me become the man I am today. It taught me values to hand down to the next generations.

Don’t get me wrong: there’s fine line between abuse and discipline. Some parents have known to step over the line of discipline to the point of actually abusing their children. I have been discipline but I also was abused. When a parents leaves a mark on a child while disciplining or go way too far; it becomes abuse.

I only gave a few information from the book on coddling the mind; but only because there is a lot to digest on this subject.

I’m not saying not discipline your child when they misbehave, because children needs to be discipline to grow up in a respectful way. At the same time, know when enough is enough; so that it doesn’t turn into abuse. No one deserve to be abuse! Not a child, not a spouse, not a significant others, whatever your preference. If I see someone being abuse I will intervene. If I see anyone taking advantage of someone to the point they are being hurt, I will intervene.

You can discipline your child but do not coddled them and/or abused them!

Are you receiving Social Security? Are you old enough to retire? Have you put enough money into your Social Security? Do you worry if you will have enough to live on when you retire?

The future of Social Security is always at stake. And it has been for as long as I can remembered.

Americans may not see eye-to-eye on many things, but fully 96% of us agree on the importance of Social Security. It has been around for now around 86 years and have been the bedrock of our retirement finances. Which begs the question: why isn’t it more secure financially?

I have been working most of my life since I was 13 years old. I didn’t start putting money into Social Security until I was 14 years old and gave up my study hall in school to worked the school cafeteria. I’m now 59 years old and getting closer to retirement; which I’m looking forward to for more than one reasons.

It used to be that a person was able to retire at the age of 65; but that’s not the case anymore. Some people can take early retirement at the age of 62; but I cannot afford to do so on Social Security alone. The best time for me to retire is 67 years old, when I get the full amount; but I’m looking at retiring at the age of 66. I would get close to the full amount.

It seems that those who retire, some doesn’t live very long past retirement. My family in particular.

How much is enough to live on? Now this is a very good question to asked yourself when planning on retirement. When you add the cost of everything from healthcare to food and lodging.

You cannot depend on Social Security alone when you retire. A person also needs a good retirement plan and even enough put away in an investment as well. It’s no wonder, years ago, people had a big family. By having a big family, you’re hoping that your kids would be able to take care of you in your old age. Family was closer back then too compared to today.

For decades, financial advisers have used the metaphor of a “three-legged stool” to describe America’s retirement system: that the equation for late-life security is having a healthy pension from work, ample personal savings and a monthly Social Security payment.

Pensions that guarantee income for life are a dying breed in America, and too few Americans have accumulated a nest egg that can provide substantial monthly income across the full expanse of their retirement years. Less than 7% of retirees today have steady income from all three “legs of the stool.”

A person cannot survive on Social Security alone to live on once you retire. You don’t get much to live on. For those who just depends on Social Security can’t really afford to retire; and so they keep plugging on working until they drop. That’s why a person also needs a good retirement plan and some kind of investments as well. They need a good pension to be able to retire on.

For those who tend to distrust the government seem to have less faith that Social Security will be there for them in its current form.

Social Security is one of the most successful anti-poverty programs this country has ever created. Without Social Security benefits, 21.7 million more Americans would be below the poverty line. There are more people below the poverty line today and homelessness in America than any other country. And the United States is supposed to be the riches country in the world.

There are 6 things to know about Social Security. Congress can’t raid the Social Security trust funds. The trust reserves for retirees grew to $2.8 trillion by the end of 2020. The annual benefit hikes don’t always match inflation. You can collect benefits and keep working. Your benefits can be taxed. This is where many thinks that the government should not tax our Social Security. We paid enough in taxes through the years we had worked. The Democrats would say to taxed the rich. How about those who refused to go to work just get a job and pay their full share of taxes instead. Either stop depending on the government and start making their own money. Spousal benefits could mean a bigger payment. If your spouse make more money in Social Security than you do and they passed away before you, you can collect off their Social Security instead of your own. You can change your mind about when you start Social Security.

If the crisis in Social Security continue, the program would not have enough money to fully pay its promised benefits and could be ended in just over a decade. It’s all because of all the wasteful spending by our government.

President Donald Trump set up an efficiency department(Doge) to be head up by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswarmy to carry out slash and burn cuts plan. This department will dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies. I believe that President Reagan and our forefathers would approve of this. Yet, there are those in Washington DC who will not approve of it because they will be afraid that this will cut into their wasteful spending.

A hardworking boomer generation helped the Social Security OASDI trust funds grow to a peak of over $2.9 trillion. But with boomers retiring and fewer workers feeding into the system, the funds are projected to be depleted in 2034.

Many financial professionals believe that if you can afford it and your health let you, you should wait until you’re 70 years old to retire.

Here are some ideas to bring money into the system: Adjust the cap, increase the payroll tax rates, broaden the base, broaden the definition of income, introduce more progressivity, cut benefits for new recipients, reduce the cost of living adjustment, change benefit calculations, and up the retirement age.

How about we stop giving Social Security payment to the illegal immigrants, the younger generations get off their lazy ass and get a job instead of playing on their phone and Social Media. You hear them cry if they have to work 8 hours or more. Stop getting money for nothing!! Stop asking for free handout if you are not willing to actually work for it. For those who are working but still struggling, then you are entitled to the help if needed.

Social Security was set up to help hard working folks to be able to afford to retire when the time come. Since we cannot depend on Social Security to be there when we’re ready to retire, we have to look for other investments. Some good jobs offer some form of retirement such as 401 k. While others look at investments as well. I’m so glad that I have a retirement plan through my job. I’m also glad for the advice I received after I came into an inheritance, to put some money into retirement. If I didn’t have those 2 also, who knows if I would be able to retire at all. I’m grateful that I found a good investment company through my bank.

With the high cost of healthcare, it could deplete our retirement very easily. If you just have Social Security and Medicare, you’re screwed. If you own anything or have certain investment, and need to go into a nursing home in your old age, they could take it all away very easily. Before my mother passed away, us kids advice her to divorce dad, that way the farm and our inheritance would be safe from being taken away from the nursing home care and our corrupt government.

If you can look for other means of retirement because you cannot depend on Social Security alone. Not only do I have a retirement plan and investment, I also have this blog that I write weekly. I sure hope that it will goes viral by the time I reach retirement age. My mother never really retired even though she was getting Social Security, she worked up to the point she had a stroke. My step-dad got less money from his Social Security; but at least we had the farm and he was a Veteran. There are those who never work and they got plenty. I’m not talking about the rich here as much as those who choose to live off us taxpayers.

As I said last week, there’s power in prayers. Don’t ever give up praying. God hears our prayers. You may not always get what you want when you pray when you want it; but it doesn’t mean God doesn’t hear your prayers. Sometimes it’s the unanswered prayers that is heard. We should be rejoicing at all times for the answered and unanswered prayers. Sometimes, though, you may not feel like rejoicing though.

There are some who can be rejoiceful despite of the situation they may be facing. I’ve seen it first hands. People who are disabled is prime example of those who is able to rejoice. I knew a pastor’s daughter, who was in a wheelchair and I have seen some disabled people really get into worshiping and praising the Lord. It’s amazing how they can still do that.

Have you ever been in a church with colored people in and seen how they actually worshiped?

Usually it’s more down South in the Baptist or Pentecostal churches. I have seen it in the Nazarene church I’m a member of as well. The church I belong to is a multinational church. Believe me, the people of color can really worshiped. They get all excited during worship time.

Up in North Dakota and Minnesota, it”s more Catholic and Lutheran upbringing. One time, my mother came to the Nazarene church I belong to and she was uncomfortable in how vibrant the people get when it comes to worshiping. She wasn’t used to it; since in the Catholic and Lutheran churches, they are more somber. She saw it as disrespectful.

In 1 Thessalonian 5:16, “Be joyful always; 1 Thessalonian 5:17, “Pray continually;” 1 Thessalonian 5:18, ” give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” These are rules to how we should worship. It’s not always easy to be joyful, to pray continually, and give thanks in all circumstances. Sometimes you may not feel like doing it.

Even though Thanksgiving is this coming Thursday, a day to be thankful; we should be thankful all year long.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. If you remain steadfast in your faith, may your blessing be on your people and may the Lord bless you. The devil will tremble as you continue rejoicing in the Lord.

I don’t know about you but I think that sometimes we lose the remembrance of a celebration in all the hype surrounding the observation. It seems that holidays, celebrations, and observances have grown exponentially in size, grandeur, and cost. All that drives this expansion isn’t necessarily bad, but also doesn’t always point us back to the reason we are celebrating. We get lost in the plans, decorations, food, and need to impress others that we can lose sight of the most important part of the celebration.

Thanksgiving and Christmas get lost in translation because of people seems to forget the real reason for celebrating Thanksgiving.

What amazing, miraculous deeds have happened in your life? How has God shown up in your world? What are you doing to honor God?

As autumn continues the journey toward winter, a variety of holidays and celebrations show up on our calendars and in our homes. While there are certain cultural considerations and conformities for holidays, we all have our own unique imprints on our celebrations. Families may listen to certain Christmas songs while decorating. Perhaps the celebration of Thanksgiving includes invitations to foreign exchange students for the special meal. Celebrations are our reminders of past events, achievements and special relationships. What observances do you have to remind you of God’s great mercy?

Thanksgiving and Christmas used to be a big thing in my family while growing up. The idea of family getting together to celebrate the year.

Now it seems that more and more people do not want to get together to celebrate Thanksgiving anymore. They don’t want to deal with all the drama that comes with certain family. Sure my family may be dysfunctional; but out of respect for my mother who loves seeing the family get together, we suck it up and get together.

Now politics have become one of the reasons that families doesn’t get together anymore. Politics can really divide many family, and that’s a crying shame.

That was never a big issues years ago. I came from a big family and my mother came from a big family. I was closed to most of my cousins growing up. I even was closed to some of my 2nd cousins as well, those that was closed to my age.

Since this election, I have been hearing that there are some who doesn’t want to get together for Thanksgiving because of the way they voted or didn’t vote for. The family dynamic unit is disintegrating. Part of the reason is because the parents may no longer be with us. My mother was the glue that held the family together. She loved her family and getting together with them no matter of the family drama.

We need to get past our differences over who we voted for. We need to go back to the days when people actually got along no matter what. We need to stop crying and getting upset because you may not like who you voted for. We must learn to deal with it in a more respectful way like we did in the past. We must learn to rejoice anyway no matter what your circumstances may be.

Be thankful for what you do have and rejoice in that.

I remembered back in 1999/2000, my sister noticed the joy I had and asked about it. I shared my testimony and the reason for the joy I had.

You may be facing a bad situation due to your health or lost of a home or a job; but you can still rejoice that you are still alive. You live another day.

Instead of being hateful because you do not like who was elected, rejoice that you are still alive. if you are a Christian but still have hate in your heart for someone, you are not showing Christ to others. Just accept the fact and rejoice anyway. Rejoice that you are still alive!

This Thanksgiving instead of crying over spilled and getting all upset, try a little rejoicing instead. Don’t let others bring you down. Deal with it and accept what is given to you! Be thankful for what you have and rejoice always. Count your blessing!

Have you ever felt the power of someone praying for you?

It’s the power of the Holy Spirit at work in your life. I remembered years ago, back in the ’90’s when I was working at the Fargo Country Club on Easter Sunday. That was a busy Sunday and during around midday, I felt the Holy Spirit moving over me. It was almost like someone was praying for me at that moment.

There’s power in prayers. If you pray in the Holy Spirit and from the heart, the Lord will hear your prayers. It’s not necessary speaking in tongues though, but it could be for those who have that gift.

In this blog,I will be talking about the Lord’s Prayer as written in Matthew 6. This will be in honor of Thanksgiving coming up in 2 weeks. This will be part 1 of the Thanksgiving blog.

As Jesus stated in Matthew 6:5, “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.”

In Matthew 6:6, “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”

In Matthew 6:7, “And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like the pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.”

There may be some good prayers out there,but none is as effective as prayers that comes from the heart. God knows what is in our heart. He hears our cries as we cry out to him. These prayers may sounds good but it’s just words being babbled. It’s like politicians being full of empty promises. It’s all talk and no action and heart. I have been in some churches in which the preacher would quote prayers written down,like the Catholic and Lutheran churches. Believe me, they’re not as effective as prayers that comes from the heart.

Let us start with Matthew 6:9, in which it says, “Our Father in heaven,hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread.”

First,we give honor and praise to our Lord and Savior. Then we pray for His will be done not ours. Believe me, that’s one of the hardest thing to do, to surrender our will over to God. We live in a society where we want something, we want it now. We are impatient people.

In Matthew 6:12, “Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.”

In Matthew 6:13, “And lead us not into temptation,but deliver us from the evil one.”

In Matthew 6:14, “For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.”

When you go to the altar seeking prayers,make sure that you truly forgive anyone who has trespassed against you. Take it to the altar and leave it there. Don’t be an Indian giver with God! Even though you may forgiven,it doesn’t mean it’s forgotten. You just don’t have to drag it alone with you and let it fester in you. Let it go and move on!

In Matthew 6:16 and 17, “When you fast,do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast put oil on your head and wash your face.”

Don’t be fasting just because you want to lose weight! That’s a different kind of fasting all together. The fasting here is letting go and become truly sanctified. You will know when you are being sanctified. It will be when the fire fell. You’ll feel it, believe me. I’ll never forget the day the fire fell, when I was sanctified. When I was up at the altar praying and having the pastor as well,praying for me, I was sweating like a pig. Not only was I in tears but sweat was coming off my body as well. Much the same way as when Jesus Christ was sweating bloods before He was crucified.

When you pray,don’t be like the Pharisees, who thought himself to be better than anyone else. Jesus called them hypocrites. Instead be like a sinner repenting of their sins. Who prayers do you think will be answered? The sinner who confessed his sins or the Pharisees who said, “i’m nothing like the sinner.” That Pharisees was being judgmental.

Even though, David had sinned when he committed adultery with Bathsheba, he was still a man after God’s own heart. The reason was because he confessed his sins to God.

After the first attempt on Donald Trump’s life, it was like the angel of the Lord was protecting Trump from the bullet. When pictures was shown after that on Facebook and YouTube, there was a vision of an angel over Trump.

Just like this past election, prayers of the American people was heard and answered as Donald Trump was reelected in a massive landslide victory. You can’t tell me different either.

If the Holy Spirit is really at work, you can feel the power of prayers at work. Just like, when I do my morning devotion and then go to church and the Pastor would preach on the same thing as my devotion was on. Or even later on that day while watching T.D. Jake message also coincide as well. The Holy Spirit is at work as if the Lord is trying to tell us something we need to hear but too stubborn to get it. Sometimes, the devil will put obstacles in our way to keep us from feeling the power of prayers.

If you ever felt the power of prayers,be free to share it in your comments. Stay tuned for part 2 next week, as we talk about rejoicing even in bad situations.

Your mind has a mind of it’s own. Have you ever wished you could rewire your brain, just as a programmer would a computer? Do want to get rid of the stinking thinking?

In this blog, I will be going into the book, “Mind Hacking”, by Sir John Hargrave. In this book, I will show how to change your mind for good in 21 days. How to conquer fear, improve your career, fix your relationships, and overcome addictions.

Think of the problems you’re facing in your life-whether that’s work, finances,health, relationships, kids, and reflect on how much time you spend thinking about them. If you hate that sense of obsessive worry and anxious doubt, then mind hacking is for you. You’ll learn how to debug the negative thought loops that are keeping you stuck.

A Hacker is a person who enjoys learning the details of programming systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.

In other words, you are never too old to learn new things. Hopefully, you’ll be constantly learning new things everyday. When I was younger and in school, I wasn’t much into reading books. I have to admit, as I get older, I’m more into reading and getting new ideas for my blog to keep it informative and interesting. My High School English teacher, Mr. Nelson and my college professor, Dr. Thomas Matchie would be proud of me today.

Mind hacking should have the same spirit creative problem solving. It should let the majority of us hack our minds via the simple,elegant solutions dreamed up by smart people like you.

To master your mind is to master your life! A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

In the movie based on the book, “A beautiful Mind,” John Nash was an expert in math but suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. It goes to show anyone can master their mind.

When you’re doing things that don’t require a lot of concentration, your mind goes into overdrive. We all suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder(ADD) in some form or another.

Thinking is good! Thinking is how we make decisions,get stuff done,and move our lives forward. Don’t let people or the government try to control your mind and thinking process. You have a brain, use it and think for yourself. Not everyone will agree with you but they must learn to accept it and get over the fact you came up with your own conclusion on your own.

Back in 2016, Hillary Clinton said that all Trump’s supporters should be deprogram. Just like in the book, “1984,” there was the thought police who wanted to deprogram anyone who thought for themselves. They wanted to control what you think. Just like anyone who was in a cult and the family was able to get them away from the cult. They had to be deprogram as well. Another example was during World War 2, in Germany under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi reign.

The Nazi was deprogramming the young boys to control their thoughts process and turned them against their parents as well. Much the same with our education system right now. Instead of teaching our kids the basic, the teachers are indoctrinating our kids and deprogramming them; so that they can control them and their thoughts and take away anything they may had learned from their parents. This is something that those on the Left wants to do,that way they can take away family values you were raised by your parents.

Our minds are like misbehaving dogs.

Time is money, and your time-in the form of your attention-is your most valuable resource.

As I said earlier, we all have ADD. It is addictive. Is it any wonder Attention Deficit Disorder is so prevalent? Although ADD was first described in 1902, it has been steadily on the rise in recent years. Our mind craves information; that’s what it eats. Unfortunately, your mind has bulimia.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. It’s how we set goals for ourselves.

There is one way a person can keep from getting dementia and/Alzheimer;and that is to be constantly learning new things everyday. I like to play words game on my phone. It keeps our mind sharp. It goes the same with doing crosswords puzzles as well.

My step-dad would say, “A person can be book smart but not street smart.” Or hair and brain don’t mix.

Right now those on the Left would love to deprogram all the Trump’s supporters. They cannot understand why the American people can choose him over them and the government. The government would love to be able to control our mind and thought process.

Have anyone ever been hypnotize? It’s a way to enhance your memory and/or control your thoughts. This is a tool to help overcome an addiction or deal with painful memories from your past. It’s a way to eliminate the stinking thinking you may have.

Don’t let anyone tells you what to think! You have a mind of your own! Don’t let the government and/or the thought police tell you different. Don’t let them try to hack your mind to control your every moves and thoughts. Those on the Left would love to do that if they could.